Laparoscopic-assisted live donorliver resection as performed by Dr.Lynt

Johnson at GeorgetownUniversity Hospital

Camera, phantom, trackers

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Virtual reality augmentedlaparoscopic surgery

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Another laparoscopic example

Three displays are provided: the standard laparoscopic view (left), laparoscopic ultrasound(center), and real-time rendering of the ultrasound probe relative to a pre-procedure CTangiogram. The top row shows three still images when the celiac axis is being imaged. Thebottom row shows the superior mesenteric artery being imaged. Figure courtesy of JamesEllsmere, MD, and KirbyVosburgh, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Thoraco-abdominalinterventions

(enabled by improvements inelectromagnetic tracking)

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Thoraco-abdominal

image-guided clinical trials

Organ/

Method

Procedure

TrackingSystem

Modality

Reference

Lung

Bronchoscopic

Biopsy

Biosense

CT

Solomon

1998

Liver

Biopsy

Ultraguide

Ultrasound

Howard 2001

Kidney

Biopsy

Ultraguide

Ultrasound

Wallace 2006

Laparoscopy

Tumor

resection

Aurora,

Ascension

CT /Ultrasound

Lango

/Vosburgh

CourtesyFilip

Banovac, MD, Chapter 13, Image-Guided Interventions book

First Clinical Case of Electromagnetically TrackedLung Biopsy at Georgetown University